NEWS

Christian Arming, the new Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, brings his orchestra to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 31st October for a programme of works closely associated with the orchestra: Liègois composer Cesar Franck's Symphony in D, Les Nuits d'été by Berlioz (soprano Sophie Karthauser), excerpts from The Marriage of Figaro as well as choruses from operas by Verdi with the Choir of the Opéra Royal de Liège.

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger will replace Roger Muraro in a concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at Salle Pleyel on the 5th October. On the programme, the Fantasy for piano and orchestra by Debussy, a work he has performed with the San Francisco Symphony and New World Symphony orchestras with their Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas.

On the 22 October, Rolf Beck will be at the head of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the choir of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, of which he is the Artistic Director, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to conduct E.T.A. Hoffmann's Miserere and Mozart's Requiem.

On the 8th October, Etsuko Hirose is back amongst friends at the NHK Chamber Orchestra to perform Mozart's Piano concerto no. 9, the Jeunehomme, before flying to Warsaw to perform Beethoven's Piano concerto no. 3 with Sinfonia Varsovia under the baton of Pavel Kotla on the 12 October.

Yoel Levi and Tatjana Vassiljeva join the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra on the 4th and 5th October to perform Elgar's Cello concerto in a programme completed by Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé.

On the 6th and 7th October, Augustin Dumay will play-conduct the orchestra of Jönköping in an all-Mozart programme: the 3rd and 5th Violin concerti and the Symphony No. 41 Jupiter.

On October 11, Ye Eun Choi will perform for the first time in Norrköping, Sweden, interpreting the Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra by Max Bruch, with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Francis.

Louis Lortie will play the all-too-rarely performed Symphony on a French Mountain Air by Vincent d'Indy in Reykjavik with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rumon Gamba on the 25th October.